{"id":4878,"date":"2009-01-01T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=4878"},"modified":"2010-12-02T05:47:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T10:47:41","slug":"what-weve-been-up-to-behind-your-back-december-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/01\/01\/what-weve-been-up-to-behind-your-back-december-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociological Images Update (December 2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, thanks to all of you for making 2008 a great year for Sociological Images!<\/strong>\u00a0 Our list of 152 blogs that link to us<\/a> is one tiny way that we try to show our appreciation.\u00a0 Browse through our list, if you like, and if you link to us in your blogroll and aren’t on there, please send us a note at socimages@thesocietypages.org<\/a> to let\u00a0us know.<\/p>\n

Second, as usual, <\/strong>we have been up to some stuff behind your back!<\/strong>\u00a0 Here it is:<\/p>\n

Remember how the swastika didn’t used to connote total evil?\u00a0 Neither did we.\u00a0We added several more examples of pre-Nazi uses of the swastika to this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Canadian Centre for Diversity put out an interesting PSA along the lines of the U.S. “I am African” campaign (so brilliantly parodied).\u00a0 Find the link here<\/a>.\u00a0 Thanks to Julie C. for sending it in!<\/p>\n

Our post about rape as hyperconformity<\/a>\u00a0to masculine norms\u00a0sparked a ton of comments, many of them negative.\u00a0 Maybe these screenshots of a whole series of recipes for a drink called the “Liquid Panty Remover” will influence you one way or the other.\u00a0\u00a0 Enjoy<\/a>!\u00a0 (Thanks to an anonymous commenter and Vidya for pointed us to a hoax billboard that led us to discover these.)<\/p>\n

We added another example of an image of sexualized dominance, this time women’s dominance over men, to our post on the theme<\/a>.\u00a0 Thanks to Stumblng Tumblr\u00a0for the submission!<\/p>\n

Still on the topic of sex:\u00a0 Laura at The F Word<\/a> posted a video of a commercial that just begged to be added to our post on ejaculation imagery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You wine drinkers are all sissies!\u00a0 We added another set of ads to this post<\/a> on messages about masculinity in Jim Beam ads.\u00a0 Also on the theme of masculinity, we added a Gillette shampoo ad that tells men to “take charge” of their hair to this post<\/a> about masculinizing beauty products.\u00a0 And\u00a0a reader\u00a0sent us a link to more antics from Dmitri the Lover<\/a> (I feel gross just writing his name).<\/p>\n

We added a series of furnishings shaped like female bodies–mostly tits and asses really–to a post on in-no-way-theoretical objectification. Click here<\/a> for the post.\u00a0 Here’s a teaser just for fun:<\/p>\n

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Relatedly, we added an image of a pole-dancer alarm clock from a catalog to this post<\/a> featuring the “Bitchcruiser.”\u00a0 Yeah, you gotta take a look at that one.<\/p>\n

On the theme of using women’s bodies to “sell” stuff, here’s<\/a> another image showing how PETA sexualizes women as a way to advocate vegetarianism.<\/p>\n

On gender and socialization, we added a screen shot of an Amazon webpage showing what to buy “for her” and “for him”\u00a0to our post<\/a> about gendered holiday gift marketing (sent in by Sofia A.) and we added an image of the video game Imagine: Babies<\/em> to this post<\/a> about how Miss Bimbo socializes girls into traditional gender roles.<\/p>\n

Speaking of banal stereotypes, Jasmine sent us some more examples of truly boring\u00a0uses of stereotypes.\u00a0 This time they are used to promote eye care.\u00a0 Find them here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We added an image comparing a Brazilian brand of rum to Brazilian waxes (you know, those<\/em> kinds of waxes) to make the claim that the brand is authentic to this post<\/a>.\u00a0 Because there’s nothing more authentic than a woman waxed to look like a child.\u00a0 What!?<\/p>\n

Finally, what better way to end our list than with a post about animals, “love,” and babies!\u00a0 A bonded pair of male penguins at a zoo were replacing the eggs of male-female couples with rocks and sneaking off with their eggs.\u00a0 The zoo keepers helped them legitimately adopt and now everyone’s happy.\u00a0 We added a picture of this couple to our post about actual “homosexual” pairings among animals<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, thanks to all of you for making 2008 a great year for Sociological Images!\u00a0 Our list of 152 blogs that link to us is one tiny way that we try to show our appreciation.\u00a0 Browse through our list, if you like, and if you link to us in your blogroll and aren’t on there, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-4878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-updates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4878"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30258,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878\/revisions\/30258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}